Back Issuesdiscusses a major comic of the past, reevaluating its strengths and weaknesseswhile exploring the cultural context of its creation and how it has impacted the future of the comic-book medium and industry. This week: Civil War, Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s explosive event series that pitted Captain…

A superhero created by the government to fight the Axis powers in World War II, Captain America has always been a character with a strong political foundation, and writer Nick Spencer gets back to the hero’s roots with Captain America:Sam Wilson (Marvel), a book that has courted controversy by having the character…